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Michael Fox

Michael Fox is a longtime film journalist and critic, and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. He teaches documentary classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs at U.C. Berkeley and S.F. State. In 2015, the San Francisco Film Society added Fox to Essential SF, its ongoing compendium of the Bay Area film community's most vital figures and institutions.

Scene from "The Picture of His Life," one of the movies screening at the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Posted inFilm

Underwater photographer dives deep to pursue his dream and heal his past

by Michael Fox July 19, 2019
Moe Berg was a major league catcher for 15 years. (Photo/Courtesy Irwin Berg)
Posted inCulture

The myth of Moe Berg, ‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’

by Michael Fox May 31, 2019
A scene from “The Unorthodox”
Posted inTV & Film

Birth of Shas party recounted with humor, heart in ‘The Unorthodox’

by Michael Fox March 6, 2019March 6, 2019
Menny (Moshe Folkenflik) is a religious man who picks up his old guitar again to raise funds for his sick child in “Redemption.” (Photo/Courtesy EBIJFF)
Posted inCulture

‘Redemption’ lies between rock (’n’ roll) and a hard place

by Michael Fox February 15, 2019
a man and woman hold their faces close together, gazing into each other's eyes
Posted inFilm

Personal reinvention goes tragically awry in ‘A Fortunate Man’

by Michael Fox February 14, 2019February 15, 2019
Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the new biopic “On the Basis of Sex”
Posted inFilm

RBG biopic is a journey from underdog to superhero

by Michael Fox December 21, 2018December 21, 2018
In "306 Hollywood," the filmmakers present their grandmother’s belongings in a whimsical fashion.
Posted inFilm

Grandma’s possessions tell her story in ‘306 Hollywood’

by Michael Fox October 5, 2018
Gilda Radner in the documentary “Love, Gilda” (Photo/Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inFilm

‘Love, Gilda’ reveals the pain and persistence behind the laughter

by Michael Fox September 20, 2018
Hedge-fund manager Florian Homm in 2014, when he was on the FBI's Most Wanted List for defrauding investors (Photo/Courtesy
Posted inFilm

‘Generation Wealth’ doc shows culture’s moral unraveling

by Michael Fox July 24, 2018July 24, 2018
Jirí Menzel (left) and Peter Simonischek in “The Interpreter” (Photo/Courtesy Menemsha Films-JFI)
Posted inCulture

‘Interpreter’ evokes war angst in past and present Europe

by Michael Fox July 16, 2018July 27, 2018

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